Before BART: the Bridge that changed everything « Oakland Local

The new photography exhibit at the Oakland Museum of California, Peter Stackpole: Bridging the Bay, takes Bay Area residents back to the 1933 inception of the Bay Bridge, a time when the Bridge was an innocent, lithe piece of engineering, free of rush hour traffic and faulty seismic safety bolts.

Stackpole, the well known Bay Area photographer who is best known for his celebrity photography in LIFE magazine from 1936 to 1951, was only 21 years old when he began to shoot the series of 23 black and white photographs currently on display.